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Five Features to Look Forward to in the 2022 MacBook Air

I can see white bezels since the iMac has them.

I am quite skeptical it will have a notch, however - especially a white one. Instead, I believe it will have thicker bezels all around and the top one will be as thick as the "notch" to accommodate the 1080p camera.

SactoGuy18 said:
It will be interesting to see if the next MacBook Air will adopt the MagSafe 3 charging connector. Given that it will likely need around 67 watts initial charging rate, probably not, since that's within in the current USB-IF Power Delivery 3.0 standard for charging over USB Type C connections.
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I would expect it to add MagSafe 3.


ASentientBot said:
From the previous rumors, I thought this could be a low-cost machine akin to the iPhone SE. Which would fit the MacBook name -- a sort of throwback to the 2010 models, which had a white plastic chassis but the same specs as the Pro.

But with mini-LED and the notch, this sounds more like the 2015 MacBook. Likely more expensive than the current Air, with a heavy focus on thinness?
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Since the display will not have ProMotion, I think Apple can keep the price to the same $999.

This would allow them to drop the M1 MacBook Air to $899 and at $799 with an Education discount, the M1 Air would probably be very popular with students.
 
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mjtomlin71 said:
So... umm, don't buy one.

No one asked for this iBook either, yet it was an extremely popular laptop.

I'm starting to wonder if this whole bezel thing is some kind of phobia - because it makes absolutely no sense to hate on them. Picture frames, window frames, door frames, curbs on the side of a road, margins on a printed page... these are all "bezels" - a transitional space to separate disparate content, areas, or views.


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I owned several. It was a terrible design that got dirty if you so much as looked at it wrong.
 
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Need a Mac Mini M1 Pro/Max before any of this Macbook Air business. My current mac mini is covered in gauze and bandages.

This thing brings back memories of the white macbooks. ?
 
mjtomlin71 said:
So... umm, don't buy one.

No one asked for this iBook either, yet it was an extremely popular laptop.

I'm starting to wonder if this whole bezel thing is some kind of phobia - because it makes absolutely no sense to hate on them. Picture frames, window frames, door frames, curbs on the side of a road, margins on a printed page... these are all "bezels" - a transitional space to separate disparate content, areas, or views.


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Those bezels only work because the ENTIRE LAPTOP is white. Apple doesn’t make all-white plastic notebooks anymore so the aesthetic doesn’t work.

Also, please imagine for a second if there was an intrusive white notch eating into the top of the screen. Try watching a movie on such a display!!!
 
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Apple_Robert said:
How many time is MR going to report these same rumors in an article?
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That’s the problem I have with all Apple News sites. Apple is just one company. Hard to fill a site with news every day based on that, so you need to repeat and report every rumor, drama, tangentially related items from other companies, and my pet peeve, making multiple posts for every tiny thing said during a keynote…

Still I find the reporting here better than other apple places overall, so my complaint above is very small in the grand scheme of things.
 
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I've said it here before and I'll say it again: Apple needs to drop 'Air' nomenclature entirely. The novelty has worn off and it no longer helps in distinguishing any special design feature like it did at the time of the original MBA.

That said, I've been considering an updated 2022 Macbook (Air?), but white bezels (on any display-oriented Apple product, really) will be a hard pass for me.
 
I can see this new computer to be branded as MacBook.
And the current MBA to be rebranded as MacBook SE maybe with a small price drop and retaining the M1 chip while retiring the Air name.

this would bring things into alignment with their other product lines.
 
White bezels... Yuck. Also why call it the M2 if its less powerful than the M1 chips? Talk about confusing marketing. "You have this new M2 chip in the air, but it is less powerful than the M1 pro that was used in last years Pro models."
 
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Premium1 said:
White bezels... Yuck. Also why call it the M2 if its less powerful than the M1 chips? Talk about confusing marketing. "You have this new M2 chip in the air, but it is less powerful than the M1 pro that was used in last years Pro models."
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M2Max > M1Max > M1Pro > M2 > M1

2 is the second generation. Seems pretty clear to me.
 
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Also why call it the M2 if its less powerful than the M1 chips? Talk about confusing marketing. "You have this new M2 chip in the air, but it is less powerful than the M1 pro that was used in last years Pro models."
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It's really not that complicated. Do people confuse the AirPods 3 with the AirPods Pro 1? Apple is moving to a base/Pro/Max product hierarchy. It's silly to get hung up on numbers, at least in that strategy. All Apple have to do is make sure there is always a jump, in some performance metric, between the different lines for any given moment in time. Probably much easier to do when not chained to Intel.
 
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Also why call it the M2 if its less powerful than the M1 chips? Talk about confusing marketing. "You have this new M2 chip in the air, but it is less powerful than the M1 pro that was used in last years Pro models."
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Well the machines that will likely get M2 - the MacBook Air, iMac (24") and Mac mini all currently only offer the M1. So it will be easy enough for Apple to say "our new consumer machines with M2 are more powerful than their M1 forebears, but not as powerful as our Pro machines with the M1 Pro and M1 MAX".
 
MacRumors said:
In 2022, Apple is going to release an updated version of the MacBook Air

  • No More Wedge Design - the new MacBook Air will look much more like the MacBook Pro with a uniform body design.
  • White Bezels - The MacBook Air is rumored to be modeled after the 24-inch iMac,
  • Multiple Colors - Continuing on with the iMac theme
  • Mini-LED Display - Apple introduced a mini-LED display with ProMotion technology in the 2021 MacBook Pro models,
  • M2 Chip - Rumors suggest the MacBook Air will be equipped with an "M2" chip,
There's one other notable rumor - the upcoming MacBook Air might not be an "Air" at all. Apple could be planning to revert to the standard "MacBook" name,
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1) Possible if it redesigned.
2) Not a chance
3) They won't do that, just Silver and Shadow Grey
4) Uses too much energy, this laptop was meant to be light. Might be a 500 nit LCD LED edge lit screen though.
5) Possible M2, but we are guessing what will be available.

The name would depend on how it's designed.
 
This is nice, but I like the wedge. If they can't keep that, then what I really want is an Apple Watch styled like the Hamilton Ventura, say the Elvis80 Auto perhaps.
 
So will the MBP 13" be around/updated? Otherwise there will be a big gap from MBA to MBP 14" price wise.
 
Premium1 said:
White bezels... Yuck. Also why call it the M2 if its less powerful than the M1 chips? Talk about confusing marketing. "You have this new M2 chip in the air, but it is less powerful than the M1 pro that was used in last years Pro models."
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What else would you call it? We're no longer at the point where computer speeds double every 2 years. It will be several years before a base M chip will match an M1 Max in GPU performance.
M1+
M1++ ?
 
Better have 16GB RAM as standard. Enough penny pinching customers and screwing markets without BTO option.

Have a feeling that this will be expensive, ie. Replacing the MacBook Pro 13” price point, keeping the same 2 year old M1 MacBook Air for the peasants.

Despite my desire of having a MacBook as my laptop, Apple’s exorbitant pricing might push me back to Windows. Prices of Windows laptops are getting better nowadays thanks to better availability of Ryzen5.
 
psxp said:
I can see it being the new MacBook, and they keep the MacBook Air for a while longer,
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They’ll reintroduce the MacBook Air in a smaller model down the road, a new version of the 2017 MacBook 12”
 
Still think this won’t be the MacBook Air, it will just be the MacBook and they will keep the MBA as the entry level.
 
Premium1 said:
White bezels... Yuck. Also why call it the M2 if its less powerful than the M1 chips? Talk about confusing marketing. "You have this new M2 chip in the air, but it is less powerful than the M1 pro that was used in last years Pro models."
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Don’t think consumers were confused with the A12Z vs A14 lol
 
Am I ever going to be able to get a black Apple laptop again? I'll literally pay a 50% premium for one.
 
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